THE KEEPERS - Teen Wolf FanFic (𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙚𝙙)

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏

While Alistair was seated in his bed, his mother was pacing through his room, both with a somber expression on their faces.

"The same nightmare again?" Questioned Esther, stopping her pacing and facing her son with a softly worried expression on her face.

Still sited in his bed, he couldn't even look at her, with his eyes fixed in the floor's design. "It's not a nightmare, mom, it's a memory". A memory he knew he would be dammed to carry within hi for the remaining of his life.

Esther crouched a little to reach his eyes, with her fingers gently lifting his chin, so he could look at her, very softly he stated, "no one has ever blamed you for what happened, you know that right?".

He nodded, felling how his eyes started to fill with tears and his hands began to slightly shake, filling him with a helpless felling. It never mattered how many times every and each family member said the same to him, the guilt that ate him alive didn't slow it's relentless and annoying tapping in the back of his head while devouring his soul.

"So, why don't you better tell me about this tattoo you'll be getting?" She asked, knowing that, when her son started to zoom out in his own head, the best thing to do is to distract him and bring him back to the present.

"Oh, it's an owl, with a skull at its feet. Owls symbolize the light shining in dark times and the wisdom it leaves, but they also can symbolize the death of a loved one. So, two for one, I guess". Alistair laughed humourlessly while getting to his feet and picking up his clothes for the day. "My therapist said that something like a tattoo could help with the grief, like getting out part of the guilt and help make a beautiful memorial of my lost, as if the 30 cm of scars on my shoulder weren't reminder enough, but whatever, I've always liked tattoos anyway, and I can take the pain as my metaphorical punishment".

Knowing nothing she said would change his stubborn mind, she just stated, "OK then, come down for breakfast before you start training", and then walked out of the room and down the first floor, waiting for her family to wake up.

Breakfast went normal and uneventful; everyone ate in silence. They were still trying to adjust to the changes in their lives after moving to Beacon Hills, the town would've never been anyone's first choice for moving, but there were two deciding facts for them to land here. In the first place, Beacon Hills had faced a very notorious supernatural activity in the last few years, but the filling drop was with no doubt the obscene and unethical move Gerard Argent did, bringing most of his hunting family and other allies with the intention of exterminating all werewolves, this only made more notorious that the Keepers needed to move fast to stop a future catastrophe.

The second deciding factor was with no doubt Hermes's death, a death that shook his entire family, making them decide they needed to move far away from that place.

(...)

After training all morning, Alistair came back from the forest to his house, being met there with two completely new faces, a young and beautiful brunette girl who seemed to be around his age and an older man who seemed to be in his forties. Both were in the living room with his parents in what it looked like a pretty tense conversation, none took notice of his arrival, taking advantage of this, he went up to his room to take a shower.

Getting out of his room with a new and fresh change of clothes, Alistair was faced with his baby sister, "do you know who the hell are those two downstairs?" He asked her.

"Argents", she simply answered, rolling her eyes, "mom and dad think they can help us adjust, and the girl, Allison, goes to our new high school, so". Alistair clenched his fists, the mere reminder of what crimes the Argents were guilty for, was enough to make him angry. "If you're going downstairs, please try to not make a scene, don't make It harder for our parents".